Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to L Lillo.
The aim of this fiction psychiatric article, is to take a psychiatric look to El Quijote and to determine his strange and fascinating madness. His symptoms are analyzed as those of any patient and the conclusion is that he had a pre senile paranoia. This diagnosis, that gratifies clinicians curiosity, says nothing about the charm of his unusual mental profile or the captivating fascination of his nobility and poetry.
Tubular sclerosis is a pulp-dentin complex defensive response to several physiologic and pathologic stimuli; it leads to an increasing tubular obliteration which enormously reduces dentinal permeability. Its typical structural features are either increased peritubular dentin thickness or "caries crystals". Pathogenesis is a much debated question: some authors assert that peritubular dentin thickening is the main liable for sclerosis while others support a centrifugal theory. Another point of view considers its pathogenesis the result of many integrated mechanism.
This experience was carried out over the years 1979/81 and 1983/4 at the Magnan ward of the Braulio Moyano Women's Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Theory and the techniques of Psychodrama were applied to different groups of chronic psychotics, one of those groups being in a deep state of deterioration. Objects and therapeutic aims were to achieving changes in the patients' behavior, improving their socialization level as well as their communication links with their inmates and both their doctors and nurses. By means of both role playing and the nucleus of both the Ego and Scheme of Roles as a frame of reference it was aimed at recovering patients' integrative activity, thus increasing their re-adaptability to the familiar group an the society structure as well.